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Top 23 Shell Dotfile Projects
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I believe I first learned to shorten animations on MacOSXHints.com (gone now). Regardless, I learned a lot of great "enhancements" here:
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
And here's the blog of the person who ran MacOSXHints.com:
https://robservatory.com/make-your-macos-dock-suck/
Fun aside, I'm pretty sure that my mention of a system issue that I read about that morning on MacOSXHints.com was a helper in landing a job in an interview that afternoon. What I mean is, I said, oh are you talking about "whatever thing on that site today…?" and it demonstrated that I was familiar with whatever internals.
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Project mention: Testable Dotfiles Management: Building Development Environment with Chezmoi | dev.to | 2025-10-06
Dotfiles Are Meant to Be Forked
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Hyprland-Dots
Hyprland configuration files or dotfiles - This repo is used as main repo for all my Distro-Hyprland Install Scripts. See the readme (by JaKooLit)
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Project mention: Testable Dotfiles Management: Building Development Environment with Chezmoi | dev.to | 2025-10-06
Getting started with dotfiles (D. Vints)
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tmux-config
Tmux configuration, that supercharges your tmux to build cozy and cool terminal environment
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dotfiles
rice 🍚 custom linux config files. as seen on r/unixporn #noricenolife neovim cultist. dotfiles are perpetual wip (by xero)
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TermuxArch
You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/TermuxArch/docs/install
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dotfriedrice
Set up a developer friendly niri / Arch Linux system in minutes. Also supports WSL 2, Debian, Ubuntu and macOS for CLI tools!
Project mention: DotFriedRice: Niri / Arch Linux Desktop Environment with Modern CLI Tools | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-13 -
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Shell Dotfiles discussion
Shell Dotfiles related posts
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Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
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Tell HN: Claude Code now allows Anthropic to remotely inject system prompts
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Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun
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DotFriedRice: Niri / Arch Linux Desktop Environment with Modern CLI Tools
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Why Hyprland on Fedora Needs Vendored Dependencies (0.55.0 Edition)
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Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search
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My .config Ship of Theseus
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Dotfile projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | dotfiles | 31,323 |
| 2 | .tmux | 25,060 |
| 3 | hyprdots | 8,549 |
| 4 | dotfiles | 7,740 |
| 5 | dotfiles | 4,602 |
| 6 | dotfiles | 3,561 |
| 7 | Hyprland-Dots | 3,430 |
| 8 | dotfiles | 2,967 |
| 9 | dotfiles | 2,713 |
| 10 | polybar-scripts | 2,628 |
| 11 | tmux-config | 2,279 |
| 12 | vcsh | 2,264 |
| 13 | dotfiles | 2,254 |
| 14 | dotfiles | 1,920 |
| 15 | dotfiles-2.0 | 1,911 |
| 16 | antidote | 1,679 |
| 17 | TermuxArch | 1,628 |
| 18 | hotfiles | 1,558 |
| 19 | dotfiles | 1,530 |
| 20 | dotfiles | 1,365 |
| 21 | dot | 1,271 |
| 22 | dotfriedrice | 1,259 |
| 23 | dotfiles | 1,230 |
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